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Imagine you are naming a range of packaged, vegan, meat-like pan-fry kebab products that come with different marinades. There's a Curry, a Döner Kebab, and a Gyro.

The final product of the range comes with no marinade or spices at all - it is "neutral".

Is there a common term in English that can be applied to a food product that is "neutral" in this sense?

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    Maybe plain would work?
    – Matt Gutting
    Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 21:02
  • @Matt "plain" is great! I worry a little bit that it could be taken as too negative, but I think it's the word I was looking for, do put it as an answer
    – Pekka
    Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 21:04
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    Unspiced or unflavored or flavor-ready™ :)
    – TimR
    Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 21:13
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    @Pekka "Plain" is not seen as negative in foodstuffs, especially when compared with other varieties. Think yogurt: I can buy vanilla, strawberry, low-fat, or plain. Plain isn't any better or worse, it just hasn't had anything done to it.
    – VampDuc
    Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 21:28
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    Natural? It's what I've seen as the marketing term for plain potato crisps and other "neutral" products.
    – oerkelens
    Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 21:28

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unseasoned (adj.):

(of food) not flavoured with salt, pepper or other spices

'The dish is unseasoned, the pepperiness supplied by the rocket and the saltiness by the prosciutto.'

Source: ODO

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  • But adding rocket and prosciutto (or other non-spice, non-salts or non-pepper) seems to contradict the OP's idea of "no marinades or spices at all"...
    – oerkelens
    Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 21:30
  • @oerkelens I take the ODO's sentence as saying no additional spices are added to the dish, aside from those already in the the base ingredients.
    – Julie Carter
    Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 21:36

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